Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Why Witches Have All the Best Stories
Long ago, in the dawn of days, the Great Mother gave to each people their own proper stories.
To the Cornovii, she gave the stories of the Cornovii.
To the Dumnonii, she gave the stories of the Dumnonii.
To each people, she gave their own proper stories.
And to our people, to the Dobunni, the tribe of Witches: to us she gave the best stories of all. So it is that, to this day, our stories are the best of all stories, and our storytellers the best of all storytellers.
So it is that, when you hear an excellent story among some other people—among the Cornovii or the Dumnonii, say—it can only be that this story has been stolen from its rightful owners, which is to say, from us, from the Dobunni, to whom, in the dawn of days, the Great Mother gave all the most excellent stories.
So it is that it is no theft to take a good story from some other people when you hear it, and to claim it for our own.
Everyone knows that you can't steal what is already yours.
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